Kenya

Nigeria

• Road Transport Workers' Union: The paradox of negotiating social and political space in Nigeria, Oyeniyi Bukola Adeyemi, Head Department of Political and Strategic Studies College of Humanities, Redeemers' University Nigeria, presented at the "Informalizing Economies and New Organizing Strategies in Africa" at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden, April 2007. 

South Africa

• Impact of Labour Market Policy on the informal economy, Analysis and Recommendations, NEDLAC Community Constituency Position Paper, 26 June 2006. 

• Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Clothing Industry in South Africa - SEED Working Paper No. 37 (PDF Acrobat) January 2003 - Bennett, Mark; - Series on Representation and Organization Building - Working paper.

• Organising in the informal economy: the experience of the Self-Employed Women's Union, 1994-2004, Annie Devenish and Caroline Skinner, School of Development Studies (SDS), University of KwaZulu-Natal, August 2004, research conducted for a joint SDS and Centre for Civil Society Project on new social movements in the Post-Apartheid period (pdf file, link to WIEGO website).

• Organising in the taxi industry: The South African experience - CASE/ILO/SATAWU SEED Working Paper No.39 (PDF Acrobat) January 2003 - Barrett, Jane; - Series on Representation and Organization Building - Working paper. 

• The South Africa Country Case Study in the ILO research publication "Women and Men in the informal economy: a statistical picture" 2002, Geneva (Word document).

Zambia

• Zambia Case Study. Organising informal transport workers (233kb DOC), WEAZ, International Federation of Transport Worker, 2006.

• Decent Work in the Informal Sector: Latin America, Thomas, Jim. Employment Sector, ILO, 2002, Geneva. 

• Informal Economy in the Americas: current situation, policy priorities and good practice International Labour Office Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean Project "Principles and Rights at Work in the context of the XIII Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour of the OAS". 

•  Buen dia Prosie (Spanish) electronic bulletin of CIOSL-ORIT  informal economy organising programme (link to newsletters). 

By Country

Brazil

• Informal work in Sao Paulo municipality From Mapa do Trabalho Informal, perfil socieconimica dos trabaldores informais na cidade de Sao Paulo. Published by CUT Brasil, 1996. Extract Translated from Portuguese to English.

Colombia

• Labor training for the Informal Sector in Colombia - Cinterfor Bulletin 155, Guerrero, Jaime Ramirez, 2003, Geneva: OIT (spanish). 

ASIA

East Asia 

• Extending labour law to all workers: Promoting decent work in the informal  economy in Cambodia, Thailand and Mongolia, Edited by David Tajgman, ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia Bangkok, Thailand, Informal Economy, Poverty and Unemployment Project 2004-2006, Funded by DFID, 2006, (153 pages).
• Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment Project: Good Practices and Lessons Learned (Final Report), Sandra Yu, Tun Sophorn, Shurenchimeg Zokhiolt, and Rakawin Leechanavanichpan, ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia Bangkok, Thailand, Informal Economy, Poverty and Unemployment Project 2004-2006, Funded by DFID, 2007 (68 pages). 
• Practice in Safety, Health and Working Conditions: Home workers, farmers, construction workers in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Thailand, Tsuyoshi Kawakami, ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia Bangkok, Thailand, Informal Economy, Poverty and Unemployment Project 2004-2006, Funded by DFID, 2006 (20 pages). 
  

By country

Bangladesh

• A survey report on Condition of Working Women of Informal Economy in Bangladesh, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit Karmojibi Nari (KN), 2004.

Cambodia

• Handbook on Decent Work in the Informal Economy in Cambodia, Economic Institute of Cambodia, ILO, ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia Bangkok, Thailand, Informal Economy, Poverty and Unemployment Project 2004-2006, Funded by DFID, 2006, (32 pages).
• Decent Work in the Informal Economy in Cambodia: A literature review, ILO, ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia Bangkok, Thailand, Informal Economy, Poverty and Unemployment Project 2004-2006, Funded by DFID, 2006, (52 pages).
• Decent Work for Women and Men in the Informal Economy: Profile and good practices in Cambodia, ILO, Economic Institute of Cambodia and UNIFEM, ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia Bangkok, Thailand, Informal Economy, Poverty and Unemployment Project 2004-2006, Funded by DFID, 2006, (95 pages).
• Know more about HIV/AIDS: A toolkit for workers in the informal economy (with picture cards), Karolin Holm, ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia Bangkok, Thailand, Informal Economy, Poverty and Unemployment Project 2004-2006, Funded by DFID, 2006, (38 pages). 
• Linking farmers to growing markets: Excerpts from a field officer's journal in Siem Reap, Cambodia, William, J. Dalton, ILO, ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia Bangkok, Thailand, Informal Economy, Poverty and Unemployment Project 2004-2006, Funded by DFID, 2006, (68 pages). 

India

• Self-Employed Women – A profile of SEWA’s Membership Martha Alter Chen, Harvard University and Nidhi Mirani and Mita Parikh, SEWA Academy, 2006.  

Phillipines 

• NTU.Philippine Case Study. Organising Informal Transport Workers  (181kb PDF), Clarence Pascual, LEARN , International Transport Workers' Federation, 2006. 

Sri Lanka

• The Informal Sector in Sri Lanka: Its Nature and Extent and the Impact of Globalization. Sandaratne, N. 2002, Geneva: ILO.

POLICY:

Local government policy

South Africa, Durban

• Durban Metropolitan Council: INFORMAL ECONOMY POLICY, adopted in 2001  (English) (50 pages)

Regional/state policy

Mexico, Nuevo Leon

• Law on regulation of the public space in exercise of commercial activities (Ley Para Regular el uso de la Via Pública en Ejercicio de la Actividada Comercial), state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, 2 de febrero de 1994, (Spanish) (if you have an interest in English translation of this document please e-mail StreetNet stnet@iafrica.net)

National Policy

India

• National Policy for Street Vendors, India 

LITIGATION:

Street vendors' challenge legality of by law which allows for impoundment of goods

Phoenix Plaza Street Traders' Association is the applicant in a case that was set down in November 2005 for hearing in the Durban High Court. Street traders are questioning the legality of by laws which allow for impoundment and permanent confiscation of goods which leaves many street traders destitute and prevents them from earning a living. The case could become a constitutional challenge affecting all laws in the country. The application was brought by the Legal Resources Centre. 

Phoenix Plaza Street Traders' Association Notice of Motion

Phoenix Plaza Street Traders' Association Founding Affidavit

Beach photographer wins right to carry on earning a living   

Court papers in the judgement granted in the Durban High Court by Judge H Msimang in favour of Khehla Vilikazi, a beach photographer on Durban's beachfront (25/10/2006) . The High Court issued an interdict preventing officials from eThekwini municipality from harassing Vilikazi and from confiscating his cameras. The application was brought by the Legal Resources Centre.   

Vilikazi Notice of Motion           Vilikazi Founding Affidavit

StreetNet International Press Statement: Street Photographer wins high court interdict against Durban Municipality, 25 October 2006.

INTERNATIONAL DECLARATIONS :

• The Bellagio International Declaration of Street Vendors

STREETNET INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS:

StreetNet International Congress 2007

• Report on Second StreetNet Congress Atibaia, Brazil, 21 and 22 August 2007 

StreetNet International Congress 2004

StreetNet launch 2002

• Report on StreetNet International Theme Workshop on Employment Relationships among Informal Traders, 18-20 May, 2009, Durban. 

• SATUCC – STREETNET  JOINT  WORKSHOP: ORGANISING WORKERS IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY, 2 – 5 October, 2008, held at Booysens Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa. 

  • DECLARATION 

  • StreetNet-SATUCC Workshop Concept Note

  • StreetNet-SATUCC Workshop Participants  

  • StreetNet-SATUCC Workshop Report

  • Country presentations

• International Conference on Urban Planning and Policy Development in Delhi, India,  hosted by StreetNet International, the National Alliance of Street Vendors of India (NASVI), and the Delhi University Dept of Social Work, from 14-16^th April 2008.

• StreetNet Report on the World Social Forum 20th-25th January, Nairobi 2007

• 'World Class Cities' and the Urban Informal Economy: Inclusive Planning for the Working Poor, April 24-25, 2006, Durban, South Africa Co-organised by StreetNet, WIEGO and the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu Natal. The colloquium brought together different national and international stakeholders in a one and a half day colloquium, which included a policy dialogue between city managers and representatives from organizations of informal workers.  

  • Background (link to Wiego website)

  • Presentations (link to Wiego website)

• National Street Vendors’ Workshop & Policy Dialogue on the Regulation of Street Vending Johannesburg, 18-19 November 2003, Organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and StreetNet International